Police receive report of person in trunk in Whitman

Friday

Nov 28, 2008 at 12:01 AMNov 28, 2008 at 9:56 PM

Police are looking for a man who reportedly had a person inside the trunk of his car on Thursday. Two teenage girls went to the police station just before 3 p.m. to report they had just pulled up to buy gas at AJ Prime on Temple Street when they noticed the gray Volkswagon in front of them with the trunk open.

Allan Stein

Police are looking for a man who reportedly had a person inside the trunk of his car on Thursday.
Officer Peter Aitken said two teenage girls went to the police station to report the unusual find at 2:56 p.m.
The girls told police they had just pulled up to buy gas at AJ Prime on Temple Street when they noticed the gray Volkswagon in front of them with the trunk open.
Lying inside the trunk, they could see what looked like a person, police said.
The driver then got out of the car, slammed the trunk shut and drove away toward Route 18, Aitken said.
"They (the girls) just looked at each other and said, 'What was that? They just thought it was a person," he said.
Aitken said he put out a general broadcast to area police departments on Thursday to be on the lookout for the vehicle.
Based on information from the witnesses police identified the driver as a Bridgewater man. Police in that town went to his house around 4 p.m. but he was not at home.
Aitken said the man is not known to police as a prior offender.
At this point, police aren't sure if a crime has been committed. Aitken said the girls, both in their late teens, appeared credible in their statements.
"They both swear they did" see a person in the trunk, Aitken said.